Youth are navigating some serious spiritual terrain today! The impacts of the pandemic are only making it more challenging. My post, Urgent Need for Discipling Leadership, talks about some alarming data that has emerged from quantitative and qualitative research done...
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Your Soul Longs for a Higher Quality Life. Wilderness Experiences Offer a Path to Higher Standards.
Wilderness is a place for asking unsettling questions. Questions like,”Why am I here? Why do I feel the way I do?”, “Where am I going?” Or even, “What does being a disciple of Jesus actually mean?" Our Soul is Made for a Higher Quality of Life I’m concerned with the...
The Personality of Jesus as Outdoor Curriculum
In spring of 2015, I overhauled The Personality of Jesus, originally authored by Francis Clark a hundred years ago. Denver Seminary student Kelvin Haidle wrote an example of a way to use this book as wilderness ministry curriculum. Enjoy and I hope it inspires some...
Wilderness Counseling: What Teenagers Want in a Relationship
Teenagers are so distracted these days and have so much information to process. Yet many of them lack having a loving adult (who has their best interest in mind) help them think through God’s design for relationships. Outdoor ministry provides opportunity for these conversations.